Buying Guide

When I rebuilt my personal rig around an RTX 5090 last winter, the 1000W power supply question became very real very fast. That GPU alone pulls up to 575W under load, and pairing it with a power-hungry CPU pushes total system draw past 800W during peak gaming and synthetic benchmarks. After weeks of testing eight […]

After building workstations for our team for over a decade, I can tell you one component separates a reliable rig from a frustrating one: the power supply. The best 1200W power supplies for workstations in have become the new sweet spot for creators running flagship GPUs like the RTX 5090, multi-core CPUs, and dozens of

I’ve spent the last three months hands-on with eight ATX 3.1 power supplies, testing them in builds with RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RX 9070 XT GPUs to find out which ones actually deliver on the promise of safer, more stable power for modern high-end systems. The good news: real ATX 3.1 PSUs are finally

Building a Mini-ITX rig is one of the most satisfying things I do at the workbench. There is something magical about squeezing a full-fat gaming PC into a case small enough to live next to a console. After assembling over 40 small form factor builds in the last three years, I can tell you that

Finding the Best SFX-L Power Supplies in feels harder than it should. We’ve spent the last three months putting eight top compact PSUs through their paces in Mini-ITX and SFF cases, swapping in RTX 4080s and 9950X3Ds to see which ones actually deliver on wattage, noise, and cable management promises. Our team has built compact

I spent the last three months testing eight white power supplies inside my own all-white test bench – swapping them in and out of a build with an RTX 5070 Ti and a Ryzen 7 9800X3D to see which ones actually deliver on the promises. After hundreds of hours of benchmarking, noise logging, and cable

I’ve been reviewing PC components for the Mercury PC team since the RTX 4090 first landed, and I have never seen a connector debate as heated as the one around the 12V-2×6. After watching users on r/buildapc post daily about melted yellow-tipped adapters, I made it my mission this quarter to personally test the best